Vitalik Buterin says the app layer needs ‘good social philosophy’ most

Ethereum's co-founder pointed to Railgun and Polymarket as examples of apps with a good social philosophy, while Pump.fun and FTX are examples of bad social philosophy.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argues it’s Ethereum’s application layer, not its infrastructure layer, where Ethereum needs “good social philosophy” the most.

The app layer is where developers build decentralized applications on top of Ethereum’s base infrastructure and where they make decisions about how these programs operate. 

In an April 12 post on the social media platform Warpcast, Buterin responded to a user’s argument that Ethereum needs a new generation of developers rooted in Ethereum’s core values to renew itself. He argued that it’s the app layer that needs this more.

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